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    installed xp from vista now internet wirelles is 2.5mbp slower?

    Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by times, Jun 27, 2008.

  1. times

    times Notebook Evangelist

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    so ive been doing test since last nite then this morn and i only seem to get around 2.5mbps,but nothing above and when i had vista i was getn full bandwidth around 5.0-6.5 mbp. any idea on wot could be the problem,i did turn off my firewall and said id monitor it myself.

    i have a broadcom wlan wireless on the laptop and is wireless to a speedtouch router.
     
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    try running speedtest(speedtest.net) from your wired pc and see what the results are...

    it could just be your isp is experiencing problems atm
     
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    on the wire connection desktop im getn 5.80mbps and on the laptop im getn 2.49mbps,of course not doing them at the same time lol.
     
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    What happens if you test the laptop with it[/] wired in?
     
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    i ended up installing vista back on my laptop. sure xp is great but it doesnt do dual core to well. when i would play hd content on external mon it wouldnt run so great and when it did it doubled the cpu usage from when i had it on vista which was only around 35%,now my wireless is workn full max speed. i wonder why in xp it was only giving me half speed. i didnt test the laptop when in xp the wired way tho,im sure if i did id get the max speed.
     
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    that is a strange problem....

    I'm glad you're back up to speed on vista
     
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